The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-30
SIGNS AND OMENS.
Odd Ideas and Superstitions About
Good and Bad Luck.
Ffom az Chicnqo Tribnnc.

Odd Ideas and Superstitions About
Good and Bad Luck.
From the Chicago Tribune
"a black cat came to my house this morn
! ing, said well-known gambler to a friend
the other day, land I'm bound to make a
win, suren
YOU'RE in great luck and I'm glad of it,
| That internal Shorty came behind my chair
the other day and hoodooed' me and I'm
| gone brolxen
Such is the kind of talk that one hears
| constantly in gambling circles. For incre-
dulity and superstition your thorough gam
| blers exceed all other men. They believe in
| lucky and unlucky days, in lucky and I'M
lucky numbers, in lucky and unlucky clothes,
and every chance or passing event is sup
| posed in some way to influence their fortune
at cards. jeff Hankins had a lucky mouse,
| Pat Sheedy had a lucky suit of clothes, 9TH
ers have lucky hats, or shoes or charms of
some kind. Some believe they cannot win
| if certain people are in the room where they
are playing. Ordinarily it ought to be in
| ferred that those who are most familiar with
the actual results of a long series of chance
games would form the most correct views
respecting them and would be freest from
superstition as to chance or luck, but the
reverse is the case. and when superstition is
finally driven headlong from the world it
will find its last ditch and die the hardest in
the mind of the gambler.
But however black cats and hoodoos may
influence the fortune of gamblers, the SUI
perstitions of people generally are singIl-
larly curious and seem so deeply rooted as
to be ineradicable. Even the most intelli-
gent and educated persons have one or more
pet superstitions which they mention only
to laugh at but still fondly cherish 1t is,
in fact, feature of our social life not alto
gether unworthy of study. From the cradle
TO the grave we are beset on all sides by signs
and portentS and omens. At the very thresh-
old of life we are told that to be born with
caul is lucky. Readers of David Cop
perfield" will remember that he was born
with a caul A child born Christmas day
will be able to see spirits and an old rhyme
| runs:
Born on Sunday, a gentleman.
Born ON a Monday, fair in face
| Born on Tuesday full of grace.
| Born on Wednesday, sour and grum.
| Born on a Thursday, welcome home.
| Born on a Friday, free in giving
Born on Saturday, work hard for your living.
| Children with much down upon their arms
! or hands are bound to be rich while a child
that does not cry at baptism is too good to
| live. If several children are baptized to-
| gether and the girls are taken to the font
before the boys, the boys will have no boards
| when they are men. If child's finger nails
are cut before it is year old it will live TO
| be thief. If your cheek burns somebody
is talking scandal OF you. Ii you hear
| singing in your right ear somebody is prais-
| ing you, while if it is in your left ear some
body is abusing you. You can punish this
evil speaker by biting your little finger
| sharply In so doing you bite his evil tongue
| To pick up pin with its head towards you,
| or find an old horseshoe or four-leaf clover,
will surely bring you good luck Indeed, to
see pin as you pass along may prove very
serious matter indeed, according to the old
rhyme:
See pin and pick it up,
All the day you'll have good luck;
See pin and let it lie,
All the day you'll have to cry.
It is not pleasant to stumble up stairs, but
If you do it is some consolation to know that
you will not only have good luck yourself
but that wedding will take place in the
house inside of year. A maiden who has
bad luck at cards viii be sure to have good
husband and will play the game of life sue
cessfully. Happy the bride the sun shines
on" is a saying so old thqA people really be-
lieve it, the record of TIM divorce court to
the contrary notwithstand For it can
not be true that the digor nere all mar
ried in rainy weather.
Among the more pote,s Fumentalities
by which fate is propit shoe leather
holds time-honored. am ininent place
The custom of throwing ~ Bid shoe after
departing friend Or ansiyly married couple
is SO. old that it is emily. mentioned here to re-
mind intending throwers that the shoe should
belong to the left foot; there is no virtue in
the other Whether the shoe should be
thrown so as to hit the departing friend is
again q question concerning which the old |
women differ. Some maintain that the re- |
cipient should be hit, and; the harder he is